Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge / Edited by Fátima Alves; Katrina Jaworski; Stephen Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alves, Fátima, editor.

Jaworski, Katrina, editor.

Butler, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Probing the boundaries.

Probing the Boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge, represents a decisive turn towards the social and cultural in contemporary understandings of madness. It focuses on diagnosis and interpretation of madness and in socio-cultural classifications and meanings of suffering, alongside discussions of mad identities in literature and media.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction: Alves, Jaworski, Butler ""; ""Part I: Madness, its Diagnosis and Interpretation ""; ""Recognising Madness in Others: Alves ""; ""Claiming Madness to Explain Deviance: Bolieraki ""; ""The 'Mad' Intentions of Those Who Suicide: Jaworski ""; ""Self-Fulfilment or Self-Erosion? van den Bergh ""; ""Part II: Madness, Identities, Litreature and the Media ""; ""Madness and Psychotherapy through the Looking Glass: Cheira ""; ""Patrick McGrath Searching for Meaning in the Asylum: Butler ""

""Illness Identity in Madness Narratives: Szmigiero """"Order and Disorder: Pribram ""; ""Incorporating the Uncanny: Dziuban ""; ""Green with Madness: Hatch ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-098-7

OCLC:

891382416

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880986 DOI